Door holding device



7 Filed Feb. 25, 1951 EL flsiur'g Patented Apr. 12, 1932 i p V p UNITESTATES HENRY I. ASBURY, or 'damoami i noon HOLDING DEvIoE Applicationfiled February 25,1931 eria1 No. 51 8,238.

The present invention relates to door stop- In the presentinstance, thebase 15 is seping devices and more particularly to a decured tothe leafof the hinge attached to the vice adapted to hold a garage door in openwall of the garage, but I'do notw sh to be position. limited to thisconstruction as, 1f deslred, the

5 An object of this invention is to provide a base member maybe attachedto the leaf of 65 door stop in combination with a hinge which the hmgesecured to the door 11. In other engages the hinge for holding the doorin words,- the hinge 12 may be turned around open position. and theleaf-containing the open ng 18se- Another object of this invention is toprocured to the wall 10 of the garage. f

1 vide a door stop or holding device which is 'The segmental bar orstopmember 16 is proso constructed that it will not be placed in opvidedatthe lower edge thereof with a pluerative position until the door hasreached rality of spaced notches 19 which'are'adapted a predeterminedpoint in the opening thereto engage the lower edge of the o1')ening"18of and beyond which point the door can be of theleaf 20 of the hinge 12which is secured held in various degrees of open position. to the door.The. opening 17 is relatively The above and various other objects andwiderthan the opening 18 in thehinge memadvantages of this inventionwill in part be ber 2 0 so that the bar 16 canengage the leaf describedin and in part be understood from 20 in the opening 18 in the desirednotch 19 of the following detailed description of the presthe segmentalstop member 16 when the door 30 ent preferred embodiment, the same beingis open. H illustrated in the accompanying drawings, One edge of thenotch 19 is preferably subwherein v stantially vertically disposed andanother Figure 1 is a detail top plan view partly in edge is inclinedtoward the lower edge of the section of a device constructed accordingto stop member 16 so that the door can have the preferred embodiment ofthis invention free swinging movement in one direction, but mounted inoperative position on a garage when the leaf 20 is swung inwardly so asto and garage door; close the door, the stop member 16 will drop Figure2 is a fragmentary front elevation the extent of the notch 19 andprevent return of the device, and ofthe door to closed position untilthe bar 16 39 Figure 3 is a fragmentary front elevation has been raisedso as to disengage the selected partly in section showing the device inopnotch 19 from the leaf 20. erative position for holding the door open.In the use of this device, the free end of the Referring to the drawingswherein like stop member 16 is adapted to project slightly numerals ofreference designate correspondthrough the door 11 when the door 11 is ining parts throughout the several views, the closed position. When thedoor 11 is opened, numeral 10 designates generally a wall of a the loweredge of the stop member 16 will slide garage which is provided with adoor 11 I over the bottom of the opening 18 in the leaf hingedly securedthereto by means of a leaf 20 and when it is desired to hold the door inhinge 12. The hinge 12 is secured to the door open position, the doorcanbe swung outward- H,- 11 by means of screws or bolts 13 or the like. lyuntil the selected notch 19 engages the leaf In order to hold the door11 in open posi- 20. The stop member 16 is gravitatingly tion, I haveprovided a stop member generally swung downwardly into locking positionand designated as 14, which stop member 14 comthis position will bemaintained until the lockprises a substantially U-shaped base member ingmember 16 is manually raised so as to re- 15 to which is pivotallysecured a segmental lease the lock 16 from the hinge member20. bar 16.One end of this bar 16 is free and eX- It will be obvious from theforegoing that tends through an opening 17 in the door and anexceedingly simple stop member has been an alined opening 18 in the leafof the hinge devised for holding garage doors or the like 12 oppositelyfrom the hinge to which the base in desired open position and while Ihave -0 member 15 is secured. V 1 7 stated that the device isparticularly adapted 0 for use With garage doors, I do not wish to belimited to this construction, as the device may be used for other doorsor swinging members which it is desired to hold in open position.

It is, of course, understood that various changes and modifications maybe made in the details of construction and design of the abovespecifically described embodiment of this invention Without departingfrom the spirit thereof, such changes and modifications being restrictedonly by the Scene of the following claim.

I claim A door stop of the character described comprising incombination, a hinge having a pair of pivoted leaves, a substantiallysemi-circular member having notches in the lower edge thereof, saidnotches having one side disposed at substantially right angles to thead] acent edge of the member and another side disposed on an obtuseangle to the adjacent edge of the member, means for pivotally securingsaid member to one leaf of'said hinge, said hinge having an opening inthe other leafthrough which the free end of the member is projected,said member gravitatingly engaging one edge of said opening, saidnotches'permitting free movement of the hinge leaves in one directionWhile restricting the movement in the opposite direction.

In testimony whereof I hereunto afliX my signature.

. HENRY L. ASBURY,

